Last year yielded a bumper crop of babies to Dayton’s Jewish community — at least 18 by the Jewish Federation’s count. To celebrate this mini-population explosion — and to connect young Jewish children and their families across the Dayton area — the Jewish Federation and its PJ Library program will

Little ones up to age 8, along with their parents and grandparents are invited to cuddle down with milk and cookies, crafts, and a reading of The Cats on Ben Yehuda Street — complete with puppets — performed by children’s author Ann Redisch Stempler. The DJCC’s Cultural Arts and Book